The Big City

I was spending too much time on Facebook and I was starting to worry about just what sort of place it really is. So I deleted everything and deactivated my account.

You may not know this, but you can’t really delete a Facebook account. It always remains available to be re-activated so that you can return when the cold turkey gets too hard to bear. There is a way of making the account un-useable though. You just have to add the contact email address of your account to someone else’s account. Because the Facebook computers won’t let the same address appear in two accounts your deactivated account will completely lose its email address and thus become impossible to reactivate.

Now all I’ve got to do is find someone who will add my email address to their account temporarily, and I’ll be gone forever. (Having said that, I have just opened up a new Flickr account…)

Craig Stephens look-alike Mark Speight, presenter of kids art show sMarT, has been arrested and released on bail after his girlfriend was found dead in the bath of their North London home. Mark had just finished a successful run in Cinderella at the Watersmeet in Rickmansworth, he was playing Buttons. He has been developing a new character for the next series of SmaRT. 

We’ve made it more of an entertainment show. It’s a bit more upbeat and I dress up and play a loud brashy northern woman, who’s a bit like Les Dawson in drag. I’m thinking I might go for the dame next year. I’m very comfortable in that role.   

I don’t know why I’m writing about this really. It’s sad. She was an out-of-work actress, he’d just finished doing panto, on the way back to his TV show. I feel really sorry for him, for both of them.